Farmers lay carcasses in front of government building in Lausanne to press for resumption of wolf cull
dumped the carcasses of sheep that were killed by wolves in front of a regional government building on Saturday as part of a protest to demand more action against the predators.
“These sheep were killed last night,” Eric Herb, a member of a Swiss association demanding the regulation of big predators, told the Keystone-ATS news agency.He said the protesters wanted to increase the pressure on the Vaud government environment minister, Vassilis Venizelos of the Green party. After being wiped out more than a century ago, wolves have in recent decades returned to Switzerland and to other European countries.
Last year, Swiss authorities relaxed the rules for hunting the protected species and allowed large preventive culls in the most affected cantons.
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